• Northern Norway paleofire records reveal two distinct phases of early human impacts on fire activity 

      Topness, Rebecca G; Vachula, Richard S; Balascio, Nicholas L; D’Andrea, William J; Pugsley, Genevieve; Dia, Moussa; Tingley, Martina; Curtin, Lorelei; Wickler, Stephen Kent; Anderson, R Scott (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-07-31)
      Paleofire records document fire’s response to climate, ecosystem changes, and human-activity, offering insights into climate-fire-human relationships and the potential response of fire to anthropogenic climate change. We present three new lake sediment PAH records and a charcoal record from the Lofoten Islands, Norway to evaluate the Holocene fire history of northern Norway and examine human impacts ...
    • The prelude to industrial whaling: Identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting 

      van den Hurk, Youri; Sikström, Fanny; Amkreutz, Luc; Bleasdale, Madeleine; Borvon, Aurélia; Ephrem, Brice; Fernández-Rodríguez, Carlos; Gibbs, Hannah M. B.; Jonsson, Leif; Lehouck, Alexander; Cedeira, Jose Martínez; Meng, Stefan; Monge, Rui; Moreno, Marta; Nabais, Mariana; Nores, Carlos; Pis-Millán, José Antonio; Riddler, Ian; Schmölcke, Ulrich; Segschneider, Martin; Speller, Camilla; Vretemark, Maria; Wickler, Stephen Kent; Collins, Matthew; Nadeau, Marie-Josee; Barrett, James Harold (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-09-13)
      Taxonomic identification of whale bones found during archaeological excavations is problematic due to their typically fragmented state. This difficulty limits understanding of both the past spatio-temporal distributions of whale populations and of possible early whaling activities. To overcome this challenge, we performed zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry on an unprecedented 719 archaeological and ...
    • Stornaust fra middelalder. Forskningsutgravning i 2022 på Nergården, Bjarkøy, Harstad k. 

      Wickler, Stephen Kent (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2023)
      Rapporten presenterer resultater fra siste feltsesong av forskningsutgravning av nausttufter på Nergården, Bjarkøy utført av Norges arktiske universitetsmuseum (UM) og Troms og Finnmark fylkeskommune i fire feltperioder (2019-2022). De samlede utgravningsresultatene danner et grunnlag for tolkning av konstruksjon, kronologi og relasjoner mellom tre stornaustbygninger; et opprinnelig jernaldernaust ...